216 CATALOGUE OF 



4. Sphinx Carolina. 



Cinerea, subtus albida ; abdomen fasciis interruptis nigris, maeu- 

 lis lateralibus luteis, necnon e guttis intermediis albis bivitta- 

 tum ; alee anticce fasciis indistinctis undulatis obliquis obscu- 

 rioribus et pallidioribus, gutta discali alba ; posticce cano 

 quadrifasciatce. 



Var. j8. Fusco-cervina ; thorax anticus obscure f us cus ; ales anticce 

 subtestacece, apice et apud angulum nigrce, fascia lata postwar 

 abbreviata nigro-cinerea. 



Var. Fusco-cinerea, subtus albida; thorax nigro bilineatus ; ab- 

 domen maculis duabus basalibus fasciisque nigris, vittis duabus 

 guttularibus albis vittisque duabus lateralibus macularibus 

 luteis ; alee anticce lineis undulatis obliquis Iransversis nigri- 

 cantibus guttaque discali albida ; posticce albidce fasciis qua- 

 tuor undulosis nigro fuscis, margine cxteriore cinereo-fusco. 



-, Brown, Jam. 438, pi. 43, f. 17. Merian, Ins. Sur. 



pi. 57. 

 Sphinx Carolina, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. 346. Drury, III. Exot. 



Ins. i. 52, pi. 25, f. 1. Fabr. Sp. Lis. ii. 144, 21 ; Mant. Ins. 



ii. 94, 24 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 363, 25. GmeL ed. Syst. Nat i. 



5, 2377, 7. Abbot §- Smith, Nat. Hist. Lep. Ins. Georg. i. 65, 



pi. 33. Curt. Brit. Ent. v. pi. 197. Steph. III. Brit Ent. 



Haust. i. 118, 1. Harris. Amer. Journ. Sci. xxxvi. 

 Phlegetbontius Carolina, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. 140, 1503. 

 Manduca obscura Carolina, Hubn. Exot. Schmett. Lep. ii. Sphing. 



iii. Leg. iii. Manducce, B. Obscura, b. 



Gray, whitish beneath. Abdomen with interrupted black bands, 

 with two rows of large luteous spots, and with two intermediate rows 

 of white dots. Fore wings with indistinct undulating oblique 

 darker and paler bands, with a white discal dot, and with white dots 

 on the ciliae. Hind wings with three or four hoary bands : cilias 

 whitish- Length of the body 13 — 18 lines ; of the wings 30 — 40 

 lines. 



Var. p. Brownish fawn-colour. Thorax dark brown in front 

 Fore wings slightly testaceous and streaked with black at the tips 

 and about the interior angle, with abroad blackish gray band which 

 does not extend to the interior border. 



Var. y. Brownish cinereous, whitish beneath. Thorax with a 

 black line along each side. Abdomen with two large black basal 

 spots, with black bands, with two dorsal rows of white dots, and 



